Buy at this price?  No way.

I'd be willing to help as much as i can.  i think this video would be very helpful for new-comers.  my skype is chsados, but i have no mic!

I am highly interested in joining this call...

I know there is an animated version of the price history for bitcoin (although I cannot find it at the moment), I don't suppose there is an animated bid/ask history for mtgox aswell. it would at least be interesting or maybe give an insight to the tactics of buyers and sellers.

Which group will regulations prevent from owning weapons, law abiding citizens or criminals?

Who would you prefer own weapons, law abiding citizens or criminals?

Does regulation create a lucrative black market where certain types of individuals are able to earn large sums of money by taking advantage of the lack of competition from law abiding citizens?

Do you think putting a weapon in the hands of an average, decent person makes them a cold blooded killer, ready to shoot anyone at the drop of a hat?

Does removing the ability to protect oneself from aggression create reliance on those in power to form a police state in order to keep the populace safe? Do they keep the populace safe?

So if an unknown person buys a gun from an unknown person should violence be done to either? Put another way, is there anyone at all who you would hurt for the act of buying or selling a gun?

Do you want to define the privileged class who gets to defend themselves and enjoy themselves? Or maybe we can just let some special folks do that for us too?

Liberty is a more general term while anarchy, in its original and more accurate usages ( e.g. it does not really mean some kind of violent chaotic social disorder ),
is more specific, i.e. "freedom from state coercion".  

So you no doubt would feel that states/governments have the right to limit the ability of its citizens to purchase weapons?
An anarchist may ask if you truly have something like liberty and freedom if states determine for you what you can and
cannot own... while giving themselves the right to own and use weapons and violence as they pretty much please in the
maintenance of their own power and control.

There is always risk.

-If BTC goes down to 0$, it is likely due to something catastrophic.  If something catastrophic happens to BTC, it will likely never recover, meaning that you will be forced to

-In addition to market risk, there are other risks.   A critical flaw could be found in the private key cryptography BTC uses, allowing everyone to spend everyone else's money.  If this happens, you would not be able to get back your investment.

-If you ONLY trade when there is "no risk" (you can  buy all BTC), then it is likely that your orders will never be executed (since BTC isn't likey to drop to 0.01$ in normal circumstances).  The only way your orders would be executed is if something catastrophic happened, and if something catastrophic happens then you likely just bought something that is worthless.

Businesses seek loyal customers, but from the looks of it, they're not able to convert new patrons into repeat buyers once they use their Groupons. Perhaps, a better business model to attract customers needs developed.

Until a better name is derived, I'll refer to this idea as Foursquare on Rails, or FoR for short (apologies if FoR is a bad analogy for what I'm proposing).

The following example is how it could work:

A newly opened restaurant--Ombra--wants to attract a loyal customer base, but doesn't want to go the route of Groupon and its ilk. Enter Bitcoin and the yet-to-be-developed-APP FoR. Firstly, Ombra's must accept Bitcoin to enjoy all its benefits, some of which yet to be named and, let alone, developed. A Bitcoiner dines at the restaurant for the first time and pays full price for their meal with Bitcoin via a smart phone. A little code (boy, I hope codes are little) is activated, allowing the Bitcoiner a one percent discount off their next visit's tab. This percentage is doubled if they bring a guest(s) and is rung up as one tab. This offer is only available for one week, whereupon once the week is over, the Bitcoiner must pay full price again and restart the whole procedure. But this is only true for the first week.

You see, each time the Bitcoiner returns to Ombra's, they're rewarded with an additional 1% discount, up to a max of 10% (20% with guest(s)). If on his 4th visit a Bitcoiner pays for his meal with Bitcoin, he's now at the 4% (maybe it's 5% now, I'm getting confused) discount level, but if for some reason he failed to dine at Ombra's within a week's period, he forfeits 1%. Each week, he loses 1%, then after 4 weeks, he'll have to start all over again, but if he restarts his visits, say he's at the 3% level, the added 1% discount starts there.

Once at the 10% level (with a 20 visit minimum), a Bitcoiner can use this discount in conjunction with any other discounts that other patrons are able to enjoy: coupons (but not Groupons, which the restaurants won't have anyway), senior citizen discounts, etc.

After 10 visits within any time frame, a Bitcoiner will always maintain a 5% discount and can easily regain his 10% status after 5 more visits which, of course, can be accomplished in 5 days opposed to 5 weeks. This fact is indicative of a first time user of FoR. After 10 visits in 10 days, a Bitcoiner will be at the 10% level.

Now we have loyal customers being awarded for their visits, opposed to attracting new customers with a 50% discount that most of the time never return. As a restaurant owner, which would you rather have?

What's great about this idea is that more women are probably prone to take up these offers using their smart phones than men.

Thoughts?

~Bruno~ (not the Bruno Manser Fund)

Hmm, perhaps all is not lost then! Will update here when either bitcoincigarettes' order or the cigs.eu order comes through!

- grahamgreene